Rugged, Small Form Factor Data Recorder: The Informant™ Nano Recorder

The Informant Nano Recorder demonstrated survivability during 75 kg impact shock testing and remained fully functional. 75 kg is the force-equivalent of hitting a brick wall during air gun, sled, crash, and tactical missile testing.

Smaller than the size of a postage stamp, the Informant can be used for embedded monitoring, diagnostics and failure analysis of electronic devices. The rugged Informant can survive and "live to tell the story afterwards," acting as a "black box" in the event that a system fails a qualification test. System engineers will now immediately be able to download data from the Informant to determine what went wrong, substantially reducing the time and costs of failure analysis during destructive, high-impact testing.

Key Features

• Tiny form factor
• 16 digital & 6 analog channels
• Non-volatile memory
• Triple redundant power inputs allow battery backup
• I/O can be shorted to ground or each other during operation without damage
• Three layers of ESD protection on inputs
• Data downloaded as .CSV file

Applications

• Monitoring, diagnostics, and failure analysis of electronic devices
• Data collection in high shock and vibration environments
• Crash testing
• Monitoring of industrial, commercial, and military electronics
• Monitoring of penetrating weapons